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I grew up in that atmosphere in rural western Wisconsin in a small town called Whitehall on the hills and coulees just east of the Mississippi River. My family of ve was healthy essentially and we seldom were in need of health care.
However, with a largely agriculture-based economy, the health and welfare challenges to farm families were much greater. Working the elds and in the barns, o en utilizing dangerous mechanized farm equipment, the incidents of work-related injuries were higher than those experienced by their urban brethren.
Most rural family incomes were lower than city dwellers, and few had employer-provided health insurance. Most farm families were larger than average, compounding the situation. To complicate matters, there seldom was a health care provider nearby. Families had to drive sometimes 50 miles to get to a clinic or possibly even further to a rural hospital in a small town that had limited service and recently may have been shut down for lack of funding or patients.
It’s a fact that about ten percent of physicians practice in rural America despite the fact that roughly a quarter of the U.S. population lives there. ere was a greater risk of automobile accidents on the long drives to obtain medical assistance, particularly at night or during winter when county roads could be treacherous.
Additionally, extended families were o en larger and more closely knit, as were my Norwegian relatives in Western Wisconsin.
Slowly but surely, rural telehealth has been gaining traction in rural America, for all of the reasons I’ve just cited. Telehealth has come
to rural America, and with some signi cant advances in patient outcomes and a more healthy population. Progress in recent years has been noteworthy, but not without challenges
in some cases by state medical boards and federal bureaucrats, notably foot-dragging on reimbursement by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
e situation I’ve described is an obvious healthcare challenge, yet most urban Americans are unaware of the rural crisis. While lamenting the decline of rural health care, some media including the respected PBS NewsHour in two recent segments on the rural health hospital closings, completely missed one of the bright spots that is o ering a realistic and relatively rapid part of the solution. e key is rural telehealth. ■
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device that could be purchased by employees. IT will need to determine which devices it is able to support.
• Geo-Fencing: It may be that security, or data use needs, require policies to gov- ern devices used within prede ned geo- graphical areas. Different regions gener- ally have different laws.
• Bandwidth Throttling: Organizations must determine how to allocate employ- ee demand for bandwidth across a broad swath of locations, roles and usage vol- umes.
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